Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 59 66
Rank change year-on-year -55 +7 -13
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,546 1,888 3,652
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.66% 4.34% 3.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.25% 4.65% 4.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,099 977 2,718
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,750 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -16.13%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £114,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year -7.14% +14.37% -9.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 68,780 40,561 85,340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.82% 93.18% 83.19%
Number of salaries quoted 44,959 21,364 61,218
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 3 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 3 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -51 1,414 £75,000 +3.45% 699
UK excluding London -103 720 £65,000 -7.14% 432
London -1 705 £85,000 - 332
Work from Home -32 674 £69,310 -0.99% 510
North of England -59 323 £69,310 -3.74% 132
South East -55 175 £67,500 -3.57% 116
North West -64 163 £75,000 +7.14% 96
Yorkshire -30 94 £67,153 -8.87% 25
Midlands -88 76 £67,750 +0.37% 42
North East +6 66 £65,000 -6.50% 12
South West -92 66 £52,500 -23.39% 63
West Midlands -64 55 £80,000 +14.29% 24
East of England -29 40 £60,100 +0.17% 18
Scotland -68 28 £62,500 -20.70% 20
East Midlands -59 20 £65,000 +4.00% 18
Wales -47 10 £53,171 +2.25% 22
Northern Ireland -34 7 £62,500 +25.00% 23
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 25 (1.62%) Apache Spark
2 15 (0.97%) Confluence
3 12 (0.78%) Apache
3 12 (0.78%) CMS
3 12 (0.78%) IIS
3 12 (0.78%) OpenStack
4 10 (0.65%) JBoss
4 10 (0.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 8 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.39%) WordPress
7 5 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.32%) Camunda
7 5 (0.32%) Drupal
8 4 (0.26%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.26%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.19%) Liferay
10 2 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.13%) nginx
10 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (0.52%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.39%) PlantUML
3 4 (0.26%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.065%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.065%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.26%) Oracle Retail
2 4 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.13%) Shopify
5 1 (0.065%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.065%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.065%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.065%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 831 (53.75%) AWS
2 642 (41.53%) Azure
3 303 (19.60%) GCP
4 240 (15.52%) Serverless
5 154 (9.96%) SaaS
6 134 (8.67%) GitHub
7 131 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
8 114 (7.37%) AWS Lambda
9 100 (6.47%) Amazon S3
10 92 (5.95%) Amazon EKS
11 81 (5.24%) AWS CloudFormation
12 69 (4.46%) Amazon ECS
13 68 (4.40%) Amazon SQS
14 64 (4.14%) Amazon EC2
15 61 (3.95%) Azure Service Bus
16 49 (3.17%) Azure AKS
17 45 (2.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 43 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
19 42 (2.72%) Datadog
19 42 (2.72%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.88%) Broadband
2 22 (1.42%) Network Security
3 11 (0.71%) DNS
3 11 (0.71%) MQTT
4 8 (0.52%) VPN
5 7 (0.45%) DHCP
5 7 (0.45%) DMARC
5 7 (0.45%) Firewall
5 7 (0.45%) HTTP
6 6 (0.39%) AMQP
6 6 (0.39%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (0.39%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.32%) Internet
7 5 (0.32%) LTE
8 4 (0.26%) RFID
9 3 (0.19%) Hyperconnected
9 3 (0.19%) Modbus
10 2 (0.13%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.13%) SNMP
10 2 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (12.74%) NoSQL
2 195 (12.61%) MongoDB
3 180 (11.64%) PostgreSQL
4 93 (6.02%) MySQL
5 83 (5.37%) Relational Database
6 75 (4.85%) SQL Server
7 74 (4.79%) Elasticsearch
8 58 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
9 52 (3.36%) DynamoDB
10 41 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
11 38 (2.46%) Redis
12 31 (2.01%) BigQuery
13 29 (1.88%) Big Data
14 25 (1.62%) RDBMS
15 9 (0.58%) DB2
15 9 (0.58%) Pinecone
16 8 (0.52%) Power BI
17 6 (0.39%) Data Lake
17 6 (0.39%) Hadoop
17 6 (0.39%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 191 (12.35%) Git
2 143 (9.25%) GitLab
3 127 (8.21%) Jenkins
4 56 (3.62%) TeamCity
5 44 (2.85%) JUnit
6 39 (2.52%) JIRA
7 36 (2.33%) Cucumber
8 32 (2.07%) Mockito
9 30 (1.94%) CircleCI
10 29 (1.88%) Cypress.io
10 29 (1.88%) Maven
11 27 (1.75%) Claude Code
12 16 (1.03%) SonarQube
13 15 (0.97%) JMeter
13 15 (0.97%) Selenium
13 15 (0.97%) Vite
14 12 (0.78%) Bitbucket
15 9 (0.58%) Postman
15 9 (0.58%) REST Assured
16 8 (0.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 431 (27.88%) Finance
2 299 (19.34%) Social Skills
3 159 (10.28%) Banking
4 134 (8.67%) Public Sector
5 91 (5.89%) Law
6 88 (5.69%) Analytical Skills
7 86 (5.56%) Retail
8 77 (4.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 56 (3.62%) Financial Institution
10 46 (2.98%) Back Office
11 31 (2.01%) Telecoms
12 27 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
13 23 (1.49%) Marketing
14 19 (1.23%) Advertising
15 18 (1.16%) Billing
16 14 (0.91%) Aerospace
17 12 (0.78%) Legal
18 10 (0.65%) Front Office
18 10 (0.65%) Manufacturing
19 9 (0.58%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 526 (34.02%) Developer
2 390 (25.23%) Senior
3 324 (20.96%) Software Engineer
4 221 (14.29%) Architect
5 212 (13.71%) Lead
6 136 (8.80%) Full-Stack Developer
7 135 (8.73%) Java Developer
8 116 (7.50%) Senior Developer
9 115 (7.44%) Java Engineer
10 110 (7.12%) Senior Software Engineer
11 104 (6.73%) .NET Developer
12 84 (5.43%) Solutions Architect
13 65 (4.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 63 (4.08%) Principal Engineer
15 61 (3.95%) Software Developer
16 56 (3.62%) Lead Developer
17 52 (3.36%) DevOps Engineer
18 51 (3.30%) Senior Java Engineer
19 47 (3.04%) Java Software Engineer
20 43 (2.78%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 338 (21.86%) .NET
2 336 (21.73%) React
3 276 (17.85%) Node.js
4 267 (17.27%) Spring
5 260 (16.82%) RESTful
6 239 (15.46%) Spring Boot
7 217 (14.04%) REST
8 196 (12.68%) Kafka
9 135 (8.73%) AngularJS
10 116 (7.50%) .NET Core
11 112 (7.24%) ASP.NET
12 111 (7.18%) Vue
13 85 (5.50%) ASP.NET Core
14 82 (5.30%) gRPC
15 80 (5.17%) HTML
16 72 (4.66%) CSS
17 65 (4.20%) .NET Framework
18 62 (4.01%) RabbitMQ
19 56 (3.62%) OAuth
20 54 (3.49%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 441 (28.53%) Cloud Native
2 265 (17.14%) Distributed Systems
3 108 (6.99%) Product Ownership
4 70 (4.53%) Enterprise Software
5 68 (4.40%) Legacy Systems
6 51 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
7 46 (2.98%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (2.91%) Over-the-Top Content
9 36 (2.33%) Algorithms
10 35 (2.26%) Data Structures
11 28 (1.81%) Public Cloud
12 26 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
13 25 (1.62%) Onboarding
14 24 (1.55%) Distributed Architecture
15 23 (1.49%) Mobile App
16 21 (1.36%) Legacy Applications
17 20 (1.29%) AI Agents
17 20 (1.29%) PKI
18 19 (1.23%) Blockchain
18 19 (1.23%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 92 (5.95%) Linux
2 38 (2.46%) Windows
3 20 (1.29%) Unix
4 7 (0.45%) Android
4 7 (0.45%) CentOS
4 7 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.32%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.32%) Debian
5 5 (0.32%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.26%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.065%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 780 (50.45%) CI/CD
2 636 (41.14%) Agile
3 572 (37.00%) Software Engineering
4 565 (36.55%) DevOps
5 386 (24.97%) Full-Stack Development
6 384 (24.84%) Containerisation
7 358 (23.16%) Mentoring
8 325 (21.02%) Test Automation
9 307 (19.86%) Event-Driven
10 296 (19.15%) Continuous Improvement
11 286 (18.50%) AI
12 283 (18.31%) Infrastructure as Code
13 274 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
14 197 (12.74%) Scrum
15 189 (12.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 186 (12.03%) Technical Leadership
17 183 (11.84%) Coaching
18 178 (11.51%) TDD
19 177 (11.45%) Clean Code
20 161 (10.41%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 526 (34.02%) Java
2 398 (25.74%) Python
3 346 (22.38%) SQL
4 337 (21.80%) JavaScript
5 319 (20.63%) C#
6 254 (16.43%) TypeScript
7 124 (8.02%) Go
8 51 (3.30%) Scala
9 49 (3.17%) PHP
10 43 (2.78%) C++
11 42 (2.72%) Bash
12 28 (1.81%) C
12 28 (1.81%) Ruby
13 23 (1.49%) PL/SQL
13 23 (1.49%) Rust
14 20 (1.29%) PowerShell
15 19 (1.23%) Kotlin
16 16 (1.03%) Shell Script
17 13 (0.84%) Bicep
18 12 (0.78%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 182 (11.77%) Security Cleared
2 166 (10.74%) Degree
3 121 (7.83%) SC Cleared
4 90 (5.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 59 (3.82%) AWS Certification
6 31 (2.01%) DV Cleared
7 29 (1.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 27 (1.75%) Azure Certification
9 26 (1.68%) CISSP
10 19 (1.23%) Master's Degree
11 18 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
12 14 (0.91%) DBS Check
12 14 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (0.71%) CISM
14 9 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
15 7 (0.45%) PhD
16 5 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
16 5 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
16 5 (0.32%) GIAC
16 5 (0.32%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (7.05%) QA
2 44 (2.85%) Accessibility
3 35 (2.26%) GDPR
4 33 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (1.55%) PCI DSS
6 23 (1.49%) NIST
7 21 (1.36%) SOC 2
8 14 (0.91%) GRC
9 11 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
10 10 (0.65%) NCSC
10 10 (0.65%) WCAG
11 8 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.26%) IFRS
14 3 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.19%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.13%) SEPA
16 1 (0.065%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 444 (28.72%) Docker
2 16 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.19%) Firmware
4 2 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.065%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 478 (30.92%) Kubernetes
2 293 (18.95%) Terraform
3 88 (5.69%) Ansible
3 88 (5.69%) Grafana
4 47 (3.04%) Prometheus
5 25 (1.62%) Argo
6 23 (1.49%) Kibana
7 15 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (0.84%) Puppet
9 12 (0.78%) Cilium
10 7 (0.45%) HP Fortify
11 4 (0.26%) Packer
11 4 (0.26%) Podman
12 3 (0.19%) Istio
12 3 (0.19%) Rancher
13 2 (0.13%) MIIS
13 2 (0.13%) Nagios
13 2 (0.13%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 174 (11.25%) Microsoft
2 66 (4.27%) Google
3 51 (3.30%) Oracle
4 45 (2.91%) Typelevel
5 23 (1.49%) OpenAI
6 21 (1.36%) Splunk
7 20 (1.29%) Dynatrace
8 16 (1.03%) AppDynamics
9 14 (0.91%) IBM
10 13 (0.84%) Red Hat
11 10 (0.65%) Adobe
12 9 (0.58%) CrowdStrike
12 9 (0.58%) Guidewire
12 9 (0.58%) Salesforce
12 9 (0.58%) SendGrid
12 9 (0.58%) ServiceNow
13 8 (0.52%) Cisco
13 8 (0.52%) Databricks
14 7 (0.45%) HubSpot
14 7 (0.45%) SAP